I Am the Crown Prince in France

Chapter 138 The victory of Tudou (additional update for the helmsman Cai Shu Ning)

As Guards Commander Berthier announced the start of the joint drill, the military and police immediately ran quickly to the center of the school grounds, led by their respective commanders.

The drill process has been arranged long ago. There are four items in total, namely queue, shooting, marching and actual combat drills.

What needs to be done at this time is the queue drill.

Originally, the Guards Corps, which had many years of military experience, had an advantage in this regard. However, they have only just been reprogrammed. Although Berthier had made efforts to group soldiers from the same regiment together, many were now in unfamiliar companies and did not even recognize the drummers or flag bearers.

The basics of standing at attention, walking in unison, turning, and handling guns are all OK. The professional soldier's demeanor is fully displayed and he firmly dominates the police. However, when it comes to changing the queue, especially when changing while marching, several people who have not practiced together have much practice. The company began to fall into disarray.

On the other hand, for the police officers, although they have only practiced formation for a few months, they all cooperate with each other very well.

Especially the speed at which skirmishers transformed into infantry lines was astonishing to the Guards Corps. The soldiers don't know yet that this is necessary for the new impact tactics proposed by the Crown Prince. They will also practice it in the future, but for now they can only admit defeat.

In the end, in terms of queue, most of the officers responsible for scoring gave the police officers higher scores.

The officers and soldiers of the Guards Corps were shocked and felt that their self-esteem had been hit by tens of thousands of points - their elite troops had lost to the police!

During the subsequent shooting drill, the soldiers held their breath and prepared to open the eyes of the little policemen.

Sure enough, with united efforts, the line shooting of the Guards Corps, which took the field first, achieved excellent results of 1 minute and 8 seconds and 75 hits in three rounds of shooting. There were only 300 infantry lines participating in the exercise. At a distance of 70 steps, this hit rate was extremely amazing.

When the soldiers came out proudly, ready to watch the police officers laugh, the latter shocked them again by firing three rounds in 1 minute and 10 seconds, hitting 66 rounds.

You know, although the police officers lost, this speed and hit rate are comparable to any army. It is said that these police officers have only practiced shooting for a few months.

Of course, Joseph had asked the police academy to feed him such shooting skills with bullets. Each person has to shoot three rounds of ammunition every day.

Don't think that this number is small. It is already very rare for the most elite troops in Europe to be able to fire live ammunition three times in three days.

You know, the gunpowder and bullets loaded into the gun are all money!

The officers are all trying their best to make money for themselves. Who is willing to let the soldiers shoot at their own gold coins?

After regaining a victory, the Guards Corps became more confident and prepared to continue "teaching" the police in the third march exercise.

Unexpectedly, they lost miserably.

The police academy often conducts one-mile cross-country courses with heavy loads, but currently no one in the European armies is training for physical fitness.

As a result, after the police officers completed a 5-mile march and returned to the school grounds, they waited for a full ten minutes before the officers and soldiers of the Guards rushed back panting.

It wasn't until the actual combat exercises began that the Guards Corps finally showed its appearance as an elite force. The infantry and cavalry cooperated and quickly broke up the police's defense line.

The final result was a two-to-two draw. Although the score of the actual combat exercise was very important, allowing the Guards Corps to obtain a higher total score, the fact that they were almost tied with these young policemen who had not yet graduated made them no longer dare to underestimate the latter.

So when Berthier announced that the Guards Corps would take turns going to the Paris Police Academy for training in the future, not a single soldier expressed objections.

Even after someone privately inquired about the quality of the food at the police academy, they began to look forward to it.

As a result, the number of students of a certain police academy principal instantly increased by more than 2,000.

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After Joseph returned to his office in Paris, the first person he met was Varenne, the assistant director of the Industrial Planning Bureau who had stayed in Bordeaux and was responsible for assisting Vergno.

The latter respectfully placed a stack of reports in front of the crown prince and said: "Your Highness, the spring sowing in the south has basically ended, and my subordinates will rush back to report the situation to you.

“Thanks to your efforts, more than one fifth of the arable land in Bordeaux is now planted with potatoes this year.”

"Oh? So many?"

Joseph was a little surprised. He thought that a 15% seeding rate would be good. After all, potatoes are four times more productive than grains. If you can grow 15% of potatoes, you can increase the total harvest by 60%.

Varenne said: "Many small nobles or farmers saw that planters were sowing potatoes in large quantities, which increased their confidence in potatoes, so they also planted a lot."

Joseph nodded with satisfaction and opened the report in front of him: "What about other regions?"

"Mr. Venio followed your method and used brewing technology to convince many planters in Burgundy and several southern provinces. The planting area in these places is about 15%."

Joseph saw the numbers on the report: Burgundy 16%, Béarne 15%, Foix 15%.

Unexpectedly, Venio was so fast and even overfulfilled the task.

Varenne continued: "Your Highness, a lot of potatoes are also grown in Brittany and Normandy, but the area is not as large as in the south."

Joseph hurriedly turned back: Brittany 13%, Norman 11%. Although it is not much, it is still considered as additional income.

"Mr. Venio also went to the West?"

Varenne shook his head and said: "Mr. Vergno moved from the south to Provence, but he asked a friend named Jeansonnet to bring some people from the Brewing Technology Association to the west to promote it."

Jeansonnet? Joseph felt that this name was a bit familiar, and it seemed that he would also be one of the core figures of the Girondins in the future. It turns out that he and Venio started working together so early.

But speaking of it, the Girondins were very efficient in their business promotion.

He continued to look at the report and saw that Provence and Dauphiné also had 6%-8% of the potato sowing area. It could be seen that after passing through the southern provinces, Vergno went non-stop to the southeast.

Joseph was talking to Varenne about potatoes, when Emman led a palace official into the office and bowed: "Your Highness, His Majesty the King has sent someone."

The official stepped forward to salute and said with a smile on his face: "Your Highness, His Majesty the King invites you to return to the Palace of Versailles as soon as possible. He said he has something important to tell you."

Joseph hurriedly asked Eman to change his clothes and prepare to see his father.

As soon as the group of people reached the door, a messenger hurriedly came and handed several letters sealed with fire paint to Emang.

The latter glanced at the mark on the envelope and whispered to Joseph: "Your Highness, I am your 'grain purchaser'."

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